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Net Hiring Intent for Transport and Logistics

Logistics Business Magazine

The latest data from Manpower Group reveals that the net hiring intent for businesses in the UK’s Transport and Logistics sector is +21% (for this current business quarter – Q2 2024). Notably, 35% of all those businesses surveyed and planning to hire in this quarter say they will be recruiting ten or more employees.

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Energy Transition in Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

However, sustainability in logistics goes well beyond these initiatives, especially when we begin to look at energy transition. A recent ARC survey looked at reasons to address sustainability. This survey included over 400 respondents across a number of industries. Supply chain sustainability increases profitability.

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AI in Logistics: A Sea of Potential Amidst Waves of Change

Freightos

In one example, an employee of Varda, a SpaceX-like company, began to publicly attempt to replicate the study and had over 10,000 people tuning in to watch a live stream of rocks in a furnace. We’ve been here before with Blockchain and Tradelens, which launched in 2018 and was done by the end of Q1 2023 – a good example of hype waves.

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A New Era in Transport Logistics with Big Data and Self-Driving Trucks

Logistics Viewpoints

Fuel prices and a shortage of drivers are putting transport logistics under immense pressure. A recent survey conducted by the International Road Transport Union (IRU) industry association shows that this bottleneck has exacerbated worldwide over the past two years. Big data for real-time optimizations in transport logistics.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 12 – 18)

Logistics Viewpoints

In a recent NielsenIQ survey, 91 percent of consumers indicated they are planning on celebrating US Thanksgiving this year with a majority (83 percent) either staying at home (59 percent) or local (24 percent) (within 50 miles of their home). And now on to this week’s logistics news. How Walmart automated supplier negotiations.

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Widespread, Yet Cautious Optimism for 2021: ARC’s Order Fulfillment Research Findings

Logistics Viewpoints

For example, the Delta variant of COVID-19 may cause an increase in infection and disruptions to business in the fall. At the beginning of 2021, ARC Advisory Group, in partnership with DC Velocity magazine, anticipated factors such as a subsequent surge when we crafted our survey of warehouse practitioners. Warehouse Business Activity.

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Industry Outlook: Manufacturing Trends

Trinity Logistics

DIFFICULTY FINDING LABOR DIVERSIFYING WORKFORCE TECHNOLOGY IS TAKING OVER INCREASING CYBERSECURITY CARBON NEUTRALITY BUILDING RESILIENT SUPPLY CHAINS DIFFICULTY FINDING LABOR Manufacturers are still struggling to find labor, with a recent Deloitte survey estimating that the manufacturing sector will be short 2.1 Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0